Letter

CHARLES TUPPER, Provincial Secretary to Commander Clarey, United States navy, December 19, 1863

Author

CHARLES TUPPER, Provincial Secretary

Recipient

Commander Clarey, United States navy

Date

December 19, 1863

Type

Letter

[Enclosure 23 in No. 5.]

Mr. Tupper to Commander Clarey, United States navy.

Provincial Secretary’s Office, Halifax, Nova Scotia, December 19, 1863.

Sir: I am charged by Major General Doyle, the administrator of the government, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of to-day, together with a copy of correspondence between Lord Lyons and William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, and I am directed by his honor, the administrator, to say in reply that he is glad to be informed that your first communication of yesterday was written and enclosed before the receipt by you of my second letter of yesterday; and I am further commanded to inform you that his honor does not see any cause to alter his determination communicated to you last evening, respecting the disposal of the Chesapeake, and the prisoners now in your keeping.

I have, &c.,

CHARLES TUPPER, Provincial Secretary.

Topics

19th Century Civil War Diplomacy

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.